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Titanic Class Divide
The rich are mean and snooty, and have stuffy parties. The poor are pure and friendly and know how to have fun. But the rich win and the poor die. That's the class divide as portrayed in the mega blockbuster movie, "Titanic." Has "Titanic" touched a national nerve? Does our buoyant economy conceal a darker side? We'll talk about class division in America: the myths, the reality and what to do about it.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readStephen Ross: History Professor at the University of Southern California; he is author of "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America" and wrote an opinion piece in the LA Times entitled, "Get Me a Re-Write: Class Warfare on Titanic" Robert Reich: Professor of social and economic policy, Brandeis University's Heller School, Waltham; Reich was Secretary of Labor in the first Clinton Administration. Edwin Rubenstein: Director of Research at the Hudson Institute and contributing editor for Forbes Magazine Dean Baker: Economist at the Economic Policy Institute, non-profit progressive think-tank based in Washington, D.C. The institute publishes a bi-annual report entitled, "The State of Working America" Bill Niskanen: Chairman of the Cato Institute, a non-profit policy institute in Washington, D.C. Harold Meyerson: Executive Editor, LA Weekly Richard Holober: Assistant Research Director for the AFL CIO- and was campaign manager for Prop 210Larry Kraus: Professor Emeritus and director of the Korea program at UC San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations
topic: Minimum Wage
